Contract Generation
Maintaining hundreds of Event (and Command) contracts manually is both tedious and error prone. It’s usually more efficient to express their definitions in some compact domain-specific language (DSL) that can be used for simple code generation, by building correct classes at build time. There are several ways to formulate a DSL syntax, and we might consider the Protocol Buffer .proto format or a similar one to be the way to go. For example, you may find this approach useful:
CustomerInvoiceWritten!(InvoiceId Id, InvoiceHeader header, InvoiceLine[] lines, InvoiceFooter footer)
A simple code generator can use the parsed DSL to generate code for each source line. Note one example here, where ...
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